«Wilkinson's translation offers an excellent and timely contribution to nineteenth-century literary, cultural, and French studies [...].» (Michelle S. Cheyne, French Studies 1/2018)
Acknowledgments - Introduction: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Power of Possession in Girardin's Balzac's Cane - Translator's Note - Timeline for Delphine de Girardin (née Gay) - Balzac's Cane by Delphine de Girardin - Preface - A Fatal Gift - First Obstacle - Second Obstacle - Third Obstacle - Monsieur de Balzac's Cane - Concerns - Subtle Maneuvers - Fatality - Great Discovery - Wonder - A Happy Accident - The Cane Is in Danger - Without Knowing - New Perils - Seductions - Grace! Grace for Yourself! And Grace for Myself! - Unknown Joy - A Poetic Evening - A Muse - The Sibyl's Cave - A Ghost - A Day of Inspiration - An Illusion Shattered - A Dream Come True - Notes - Selected Bibliography.
Marta L. Wilkinson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Global Education Program at Wilmington College, where she has won both SOCHE and GCCCU Excellence in Teaching awards. She earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is the author of Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Family and Expression in the Modern Novel (Lang, 2008).
